Rebuilding a Windows XP CD

[OptiPlex]

Reconstructing a Windows XP CDROM

I am not responsible for any f-ups that occur. If it does occur, post for help. You blame me, I'll stalk you.

Most parts copied off Steven Bink?s guide, just a FYI.

OK. If you are one of those poor folks with only a recovery partition (this is why you should buy Del:ninja:a: ) and you want to build a regular OEM Windows XP CDROM this is what you do.Step 1 ? locate useable setup files

First of all, locate an I386 folder on the hard drive. It should look something like thno files are expanded):

If it looks like thall files are expanded):

Then cannot rebuild an XP CD. Sorry.

If your machine has all the files expanded and you have access to the recovery partition, do the full recovery option. As far as I know most OEMs don?t do imaging as the recovery (and if they do they restore setup files, such as IBM) and regular Windows XP setup ends up running in unattended mode anyways. You should end up with a regular I386 folder somewhere on the drive. If you still don?t htough lucklucStep 2 ? rebuild the file/folder structureucture

Before you slipstream any service packs I recommend rebuilding the XP folder structure. Grab a copy of Microsoft?s Windows XP SP2 CD (AFAIK it?s free so grab a copy) and do the following:

Insert Windows XP SP2 CDROM. It should look like this:

Now copy the entire I386 folder onto a folder, say C:\XPCDSP2. I?m going to use H:\WINXPSP2 so substitute when necessary.

Copy from the XP SP2 CD the following folders to the XP CD DOTNETFX

SUPPORT

VALUEADDORT

VALUEADD

It now should look like this:

Do this:

Open up XPSP2.EXE with WinRAR or any tool that can view inside self-extracting EXEs.

Go to i386\setuptxt folder. Copy the GIF file on to the empty docs folder.

Now your XP CD build location should look something like this.

At this stage your XP CD is still not complete. You also need these AUTORUN.INF

WIN51

WIN51IPORUN.INF

WIN51

WIN51IP

Put them in the root of the XP CD build location, such as C:\XPCDBUILD.

http://blaise.us/upStep 5 ? burn the CD (use Google)buStep 6 ? boot from CD and make sure setup works

NOTE: Also try running setup via WINNT.EXE (DOS) and WINNT32.EXE (Win32) to make sure setup via those methods work as well.hose methods work as well.

Shazam!!!!!!!!!111111

FILES.RAR

[Veiva]

THank you OptiPlex! I'm going to try this when I get the CDs... But I wait for someone else to try it. :shifty:

:bounce: :D :woot:

[futb0l]

Nice guide.

[DaViD_BRaNDoN]

Thumbs up!

[bsquirle]

The CD should be fine this way, but if I have read this correctly you won't be able to boot with it.

You need to burn a boot file on your cd.

I used this file to make the cd bootable:

xpboot.bin (2kb)

To burn the CD,

I suggest using Nero

Or if you want to create an ISO, I suggest UltraISO.

EDIT 1:

Try always to test your CD before you format your system!!

I've once created such a cd and during the setup of windows I found out some files from the I386 directory weren't there.

(could be an error from the user, or from the manufacturer, who knows?)

Edited September 18, 2004 by bsquirle

[Veiva]

How would you test it? Would I try Bochs x86 (even though it'll be reeeeaallllll slow)? Or what else? I have nowhere to test it on my computer. :ermm:

[stezo2k]

How would you test it? Would I try Bochs x86 (even though it'll be reeeeaallllll slow)? Or what else? I have nowhere to test it on my computer. :ermm:

virtual pc should do the job nicely

[Veiva]

So would Bochs? :ermm:

[bsquirle]

You could use bochs, if you're familiar with that program.

But you could also use a trail edition of virtual machine / vmware.

(I tested it using vmware and it wasn't that slow.)

[Veiva]

Hey, you added something OptiPlex. :laugh:

I am not responsible for any f-ups that occur. If it does occur, post for help. You blame me, I'll stalk you.

And thanks about the VMWare thing.

:)

[OptiPlex]

Oh yes ;)

[Bili_The_Axe]

Ok,

This seemed to work ok but the files are larger than my CD. Not sure why. I followed the guide just as stated.

My new folder contains 6551 files, 98 folders, sze 867 MB

I386 - 6346 files , 71 Folders, sze 626 MB

cmpnets - 89 files, 4 folders, sze 27.2 MB

Dotnetfx - 34 files, 0 folders, sze 39.7 MB

Support - 19 files, 2 folders, sze 161 MB

Valueadd - 55 files, 15 folders, sze 10.1 MB

Doc - 1 file, 0 folders, sze 32.0 KB

Anyone know what can be deleted?

[jaychou]

i cant seem to download the attached files from the first post can someone reupload them? thanks.

[Hurmoth]

Nice guide.

[musikfreek]

hey.. i try to slipstream, and just after its done, this pops up.. check attachment..